上海市某重点中学2011-2012学年度第二学期
高二英语期中试卷
（满分100分，100分钟完成，答案一律写在答题卡、答题纸上）
I. Listening 24%
Part A: Short Conversations
Directions: In Part A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third voice will ask a question about what was said. The conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. Shanghai B. London C. Sydney D. Paris 2. A. Husband and wife B. Teacher and student
C. Doctor and nurse D. Customer and waitress 3. A. In June B. In July C. In May D. In August 4. A. To eat out B. To do cooking
C. To go to the bank D. To go shopping 5. A. 28 B. 36 C. 34 D. 38 6. A. She played the piano. B. She did some reading.
C. She made a plan. D. She did nothing. 7. A. The man’s hobby. B. The man’s dream.
C. The man’s salary. D. The man’s career 8. A. An actor. B. A president. C. A soldier. D. A violin player. 9. A. Running in the park. B. Writing a report.
C. Repairing the beach. D. Parking his car. 10. A. The woman should have attended class on Monday.
B. The woman could turn to the history teacher for help. C. The man would tell her the assignment on Monday. D. The man didn’t know the history assignment, either.
Part B Passages
Directions: In Section B, you will hear tow short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passage will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage 11. A. Give them away. B. Keep them in paper bags.
C. Throw them away. D. Send them to companies. 12. A. Read newspapers every day. B. Pay bills online.
C. Send paper letters and cards. D. Delete junk mails. 13. A. How to keep healthy. B. How to do research work.
C. How to read online. D. How to protect the earth.
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Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage 14. A. Forgetting things B. Falling ill.
C. Gaining weight. D. Getting angry. 15. A. The father. B. The two-year-old daughter.
C. The mother. D. The seven-year-old son. 16. A. Noise. B. Space. C. Emotion. D. Temperature.
Part C Longer Conversations
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer. The woman’s complaint: The last time she took a holiday: The man’s suggestion: She can never finish her __17__. Last __18__. Taking a holiday without her __19__, which will do her some __20__. Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. What happened to Martin several days ago? How did he feel? What is Jane’s suggestion? He __21__ with his car and __22__. He felt scared and afraid of being put __23__. He should calm down, __24__ before being caught and talk the authorities about the accident.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary 25% Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C, D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
25. In the UK, there were around 95,000 reported cases of ____ food poisoning last year.
A. a B. an C. the D. /
26. John has been working on the essay the whole afternoon and he still ____.
A. has been B. does C. has D. is 27. --- How I wanted to have studied harder when I was in school!
--- If you ____, you wouldn’t work into late every day nowadays. A. did B. should C. had D. would
28. Having checked the doors were closed, and ____ all the lights were off, the boy opened the
door to his bedroom. A. why B. that C. when D. where
29. Scientists will need to keep watching and measuring carefully the invisible underwater
environment, ____ what we can’t see will continue to hurt us and sea life.
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A. where B. that C. which D. unless
30. Not until the fish died in the river ____ how serious the pollution was.
A. the villagers realized B. the villagers did realize C. did the villagers realize D. didn’t the villagers realize 31. --- I am going to the post office.
--- ____ you’re there, can you get me some stamps? A. For B. While C. Because D. If
32. The newcomer was quiet and didn’t talk much except ____ the teachers about the courses she
was taking.
A. to consult B. having consulted C. consulting D. consulted 33. Such ____ the case, there are no grounds to justify your complaints.
A. be B. is C. as D. being 34. The band are releasing ____ albums of their recent Japan tour.
A. living B. alive C. live D. lively 35. Stop being so depressed. You do have something ____ for you.
A. to go B. going C. gone D. go 36. Everybody ____ her on the way she handled the emergency.
A. commented B. concentrated C. complimented D. complained 37. Lack of sleep and interest can ____ with children's performance at school.
A. interfere B. bother C. disturb D. interrupt 38. She takes a(n) ____ interest in politics and current affairs.
A. crazy B. eager C. anxious D. keen
39. The violinist ____ himself as a talented interpreter of classical music.
A. exposed B. disclosed C. revealed D. uncovered
40. Norma managed to ____ a normal family life even in difficult circumstances.
A. preserve B. reserve C. conserve D. protect
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. charges B. wander C. match D. stuffed E. bad AE. similar AD. sudden AC. quickly AB. calculating BC. ban
To say that cheats never prosper is to elevate hope over experience. Modern technology, in the form of miniature cameras, smart phones and the internet, means stealing and sharing answers has never been easier. Indeed, the problem has got so __41__ that on March 1st the Japanese government asked universities to __42__ mobile phones from the rooms they use to conduct their entrance exams. Nor are students the only cheats. Teachers, whose salaries often depend on the success of their __43__, are not above dropping the odd hint about what is the right answer before or during a test—or even correcting test papers after the event. And the invigilators(监考人) who police the actual exam are not always immune to bribery, either. At the same time, technology can detect cheats more easily than before.
Software developed by exam-setting firms detects cheating by __44__ the probability of particular patterns of answers being honest. A correct answer is a correct answer, of course, but
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unless a candidate answers all questions correctly the pattern of right and wrong answers can point to collaboration. If two candidates’ patterns of answers are __45__ or identical, warning flags go up. If more than two, hanky-panky is a racing certainty.
In tests where the candidate is allowed to change his mind about an answer, the pattern of changes also provides information. Several candidates making the same change is suspicious. So is a case where all changes are from wrong to right and __46__ improvements in scores by an individual candidate, compared with previous attempts, also raise an electronic eyebrow.
A company called Kryterion examines matters even more closely. Kryterion administers its tests online, and the invigilators sit at its headquarters, watching test-takers around the world through webcams and never meeting them in person. The opportunities for envelopes __47__ with banknotes to change hands are thus minimized. Remote computers are “locked down” with security software to prevent unauthorized windows from being opened. Invigilators warn or disqualify test-takers whose eyes or hands __48__ in suspicious ways. The software also alerts them if difficult questions are being answered suspiciously __49__, or if two test-takers’ answers match too closely.
III. Reading Comprehension (36%) Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Organized volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to __50__ to reduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate’s resume, but now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalize the achievements of students who __51__ time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PluS aims to boost students in an increasingly competitive job market by helping them acquire work and life skills as well as __52__ qualifications.
Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didn’t __53__ appreciate the value of what they did outside the lecture hall,” says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. “Employers are much more __54__ than they used to be. They used to look for __55__ and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant’s skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are __56__ to the job.”
Students who sign up for the awards will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or __57__ work, attend four workshops on employability skills, take part in an intensive skills-related activity __58__, crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained. __59__ efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who perform best on the sports field can take the Sporting PluS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments.
The experience does not have to be __60__ organized, “We’re not just interested in easily identifiable skills,” says Goodman. “__61__, one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so __62__ negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives.”
Goodman hopes the __63__ will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active __64__ to take up activities outside their academic area of work. 50. A. advisors B. specialists C. critics D. employers
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51. A. divide B. devote C. deliver D. donate 52. A. artistic B. technical C. academic D. interactive 53. A. hardly B. possibly C. necessarily D. gracefully 54. A. generous B. considerate C. imaginative D. demanding 55. A. origin B. background C. popularity D. potential 56. A. relevant B. responsive C. reluctant D. respective 57. A. casual B. selective C. homely D. voluntary 58. A. or B. thus C. so D. and 59. A .Occasional B. Exceptional C. Informative D. Relative 60. A. roughly B. commonly C. formally D. fortunately 61. A. For instance B. In reality C. In contrast D. Of course 62. A. demonstrated B. determined C. operated D. involved 63. A. device B. section C. scheme D. disturbance 64. A. attendants B. agents C. members D. peers
Section B
Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A)
Amy Chun’s book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which advocates a strict Chinese parenting style, has aroused a heated online debate. So should a parent crack the whip or take too much care to produce a successful, happy child?
An article in the Wall Street Journal lists the things Amy Chua’s daughters Sophia and Lousia were not allowed to do, including attending a sleepover; having a play-date; being in a school play; watching TV or playing a computer game; choosing their own extracurricular activities; getting any grade less than an A; not being the number one student in every subject except piano and violin; not playing the piano or violin.
In defense of Western parenting, Mike Vilensky says in a New York magazine that the cost of a strict timetable of activities decided by parents is a loss of creativity. And creativity is what is behind the big successes such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
While no one seems to argue that children of Chinese tradition do continually better than their peers, there are suggestions from the Chinese community that the old type of the strict Chinese parent is outdated.
A columnist from China Daily says that the context of this strict form of parenting is based on parts of Chinese culture which glorify suffering, and tells mothers they are only as good as their children.
However, she says that the general feeling is that Chinese parents in China do not act like this anymore. “It’s ironic that as young Chinese mothers in Beijing and Shanghai are accepting Western ideas about child raising, mothers from Connecticut are sinking deeper into China’s darker past in child raising.”
Je Wang from a website says that as a second generation Chinese immigrant she finds it difficult to justify a strict education. She argues that the parenting style is now irrelevant as the consequences of failure in a middle class family aren’t as terrible as it would be for their parents.
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This, she wonders, might make it harder for her daughters to understand why Amy Chua is so strict.
65. Amy Chua’s book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has aroused a heated online debate because it ____.
A. lists the things a successful child should not do
B. deals with the negative aspect of American education
C. is directed to the public concern for widespread home-schooling D. challenges the western idea of less strict parenting
66. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Modern parents are justifiably doubtful about the truth of Amy Chua’s parenting.
B. In Chinese culture parents are considered successful when their children are successful. C. American middle class parents consider their children’s success or failure vital to them. D. A child’s creativity results from less strict parenting and a loose schedule. 67. Which of the following best summarize the passage?
A. Is lack of creativity a major problem in Asian schooling? B. Is strict Chinese parent the best?
C. Is suffering necessary to a successful child?
D. Is parenting style irrelevant to a child’s success?
(B)
Internet has gone into nearly every family. Our planet has shrunk. It’s now a “global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. But much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. Internet use appears to cause a decline in psychological well-being, according to the research at Carnegie Mellon University.
Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on less frequently, the two-year study showed. And it wasn’t that people who were already feeling bad spent more time on the Internet, but that using the Net appeared to cause the bad feelings.
Researchers are puzzling over the results, which were completely contrary to their expectations. They expected that the Net would prove socially healthier than television, since the Net allows users to choose their information and to communicate with others.
The fact that Internet use reduces time available for family and friends may account for the drop in well-being, researchers supposed. Faceless, bodiless “virtual” communication may be less psychologically satisfying than actual conversation, and the relationships formed through it may be shallower. Another possibility is that exposure to the wider world via the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives.
“But it’s important to remember this is not about the technology itself; it’s about how it is used,” says psychologist Christine Riley of Intel, one of the study’s sponsors. “It really points to the need for considering social factors in terms of how you design applications and services for technology.”
68. What does the writer mean by saying “much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of”?
A. People often surf the Internet and have bad feelings.
B. Internet is widely used but we are unconscious of its bad effect.
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C. Surfing the Internet is better than watching TV.
D. Too much time spent on the Internet usually cause bad feelings.
69. Why some people are not psychologically healthy? The possible reason may be that ____. A. they are too busy to communicate with their family and friends B. the Internet communication can’t meet their psychological need C. the Internet communication is faceless D. the Internet is too slow
70. What does the last paragraph tell us?
A. Social factors are the base of technology.
B. The use of new technology contributes to people’s illness. C. The use technology is more important than technology itself.
D. The development and application of technology can’t be separated from social factors. 71. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Internet use may do harm to our psychological health. B. Too much internet use will cause bad feelings.
C. It’s important to talk face to face with your friends. D. Technology is not always good for people’s health.
(C)
Do you want a glance of the future of health care? Take a look at the way the various networks of people about patient care are being connected to one another, and how this new connectivity is being developed to deliver medicine to the patient — no matter where he or she may be.
Online doctors offering advice based on normal symptoms are the most obvious example. Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis will be based on real physiological data from the actual patient. A group from the University of Kentucky has shown that by using personal data assistance plus a mobile phone, it is perfectly practical to send a patient’s important signs over the telephone. With this kind of equipment, the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the house could well be a thing of the past.
Other medical technology groups are working on applying telemedicine to rural （countryside）care. And at least one team wants to use telemedicine as a tool for disaster need — especially after earthquakes. On the whole, the trend is towards providing global access to medical data and experts’ opinions.
But there is one problem. Bandwidth is the limiting factor for sending complex medical pictures around the world,—CU photos being one of the biggest bandwidth users. Communication satellites may be able to deal with the short-term needs during disasters such as earthquakes or wars. But medicine is looking towards both the second-generation Internet and third generation mobile phones for the future of remote medical service.
Doctors have met to discuss computer-based tools for medical diagnosis, training and telemedicine. With the falling price of broadband communications, the new technologies should start a new time when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, experts’ opinions and diagnosis are common.
72. The writer chiefly talks about ____. A. the use of telemedicine B. the on-line doctors
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C. medical care and treatment D. communication improvement 73. The basis of remote diagnosis will be ____. A. personal data assistance B. some words of a patient C. real physiological information D. medical pictures from the Internet 74. Which of the following statements is true according to the text? A. Patients don’t need doctors in hospitals any more.
B. It is impossible to send a patient’s signs over the telephone. C. Many teams use telemedicine dealing with disasters now. D. Broadband communications will become cheaper in the future. 75. The “problem” in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that ____. A. bandwidth isn’t big enough to send complex medical pictures B. the second-generation of Internet has not become popular yet C. communication satellites can only deal with short-term needs D. there is not enough equipment for spreading the medical care
(D)
Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago. In it the majority of students will have conformed(使一致；遵从) to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western. Walk into a class today, however, and you'll get a completely different impression. For a start, you will now see plenty more women—the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, for example, boasts that 40% of its new enrolment is female, you will also see a wide range of ethnic groups and nationals of practically every country.
It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved. But, increasingly, this apparent diversity is becoming a mask for a new type of conformity. Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are common attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.
Diversity, it seems, has not helped to address basic weaknesses in business leadership. So, what can be done to create more effective managers of the commercial world? According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean at HEC Paris, the key lies in the process by which MBA programs recruit(招募) their students. At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities. This is then coupled to a school's mixture of what a diverse class should look like, with the result that passport, ethnic origin and sex can all become influencing factors. But schools rarely dig down to attitude and approach—arguably the only diversity that, in a business context really matters.
Professor Gauthier believes schools should not just be selecting candidates from traditional sectors such as banking, consultancy and industry. They should also be seeking individuals who have backgrounds in areas such as political science, the creative arts, history or philosophy, which will allow them to put business decisions into a wider context.
Indeed, there does seem to be a demand for the more rounded leaders such diversity might create. A study by Mannaz, a leadership development company, suggests that, while the bully-boy chief executive of old may not have been eliminated completely, there is a definite shift in emphasis towards less tough styles of management—at least in America and Europe. Perhaps most
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significant, according to Mannaz, is the increasing interest large companies have in management models, such as those popular in Scandinavia, which seek to combine the hard and soft aspects of leadership and encourage delegated responsibility.
76. What characterizes the business school student population of today?
A. Greater diversity. B. Intellectual maturity. C. Exceptional diligence. D. Higher ambition. 77. What is the author's concern about current business school education?
A. It will arouse students' unrealistic expectation. B. It will produce business leaders of a uniform style. C. It focuses on theory rather than on practical skills. D. It stresses competition rather than cooperation.
78. What aspect of diversity does Valerie Gauthier think is most important?
A. Age and educational background. B. Social and professional experience. C. Attitude and approach to business. D. Ethnic origin and gender.
79. What applicants does the author think MBA programs should consider recruiting?
A. Applicants with prior experience in business companies. B. Applicants with sound knowledge in math and statistics. C. Applicants from outside the traditional sectors. D. Applicants from less developed regions and areas.
80. What does Mannaz say about the current management style?
A. It is eliminating the tough aspects of management.
B. It encourages male and female executives to work side by side. C. It adopts the bully-boy chief executive model. D. It is shifting towards models.
(E) A. Early use of Plastic Pounds B. Solutions to Fake Money C. Popular Pound Coins in Britain D. Future of Plastic Pounds E. Success of Plastic Pounds in the Isle of Man AD. Pound Coin Use after its Trial in the Isle of Man
81. ________
The British Treasury informed us that the plastic pound was introduced in the Isle of Man because the pound coin, which had been introduced there in 1982 by the Isle of Man Treasury, had been very slow to catch on and was still not proving popular there by 1983. 82. ________
The British Treasury introduced the pound coin in the rest of Britain a whole year later than in the Isle of Man, in April 1983, and their information office reports that in Britain the pound coin caught on very quickly. The ordinary person however seemed to hold the opposite opinion and you can still find a great many British people who do not like pound coins, although of course they are now so common you have to use them. 83. ________
Will the plastic pound be used in Britain? The Treasury Information Office thought not. The
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Bank of England has experimented with different types of plastic and still found no way to prevent counterfeiting. And since the British public has now accepted the pound coin, there is no need to look any further. 84. ________
And in the Isle of Man? The Isle of Man Treasury reported that the plastic pound found immediate success. Within six weeks of its introduction, they said, there was 99% penetration. This means that after six weeks, there was only one person in a hundred who had not handled a plastic note. And by early 1985, there were very few paper notes still left in circulation. 85. ________
They felt they had solved the counterfeit problem by using a very secret manufacturing process--- which they quite understandably refused to divulge to us. But they did say that their plastic pound could be “check-weighed” by the banks in the same way as coins, and this of course helps to identify counterfeit currency very speedily. They also intend only to issue low denomination currency made of plastic; with higher denomination, i.e. over a pound, the risks of forgery would be far higher.
IV. Translation (15%)
86. 据说同学们愿意通过短信互通信息。(exchange v.) _____________________________________________________________ 87. 适当使用肢体语言在成功演讲中起着重要的作用。(role)
_____________________________________________________________ 88. 如果课内你不能集中注意力听课，周末补课是没用的。(focus; use)
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89. 经常赞扬你周围的那些人，看到他们身上的优点，那么你交朋友没有困难了。(add v.) _____________________________________________________________ 90. 他们理应知道违法的后果，但是他们往往忽视他们。(supposed)
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